A small weak scale from a small cosmological constant

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)071zbMATH Open1380.83234arXiv1609.06320WikidataQ125848637 ScholiaQ125848637MaRDI QIDQ682964FDOQ682964

Authors: Asimina Arvanitaki, Savas Dimopoulos, Victor Gorbenko, Junwu Huang, Ken Van Tilburg 

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a framework in which Weinberg's anthropic explanation of the cosmological constant problem also solves the hierarchy problem. The weak scale is selected by chiral dynamics that controls the stabilization of an extra dimension. When the Higgs vacuum expectation value is close to a fermion mass scale, the radius of an extra dimension becomes large, and develops an enhanced number of vacua available to scan the cosmological constant down to its observed value. At low energies, the radion necessarily appears as an unnaturally light scalar, in a range of masses and couplings accessible to fifth-force searches as well as scalar dark matter searches with atomic clocks and gravitational-wave detectors. The fermion sector that controls the size of the extra dimension consists of a pair of electroweak doublets and several singlets. These leptons satisfy approximate mass relations related to the weak scale and are accessible to the LHC and future colliders.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.06320

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyphenomenology of field theories in higher dimensionsphenomenology of large extra dimensionsanthropic principlefifth-force

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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